Patrick Chappatte

Patrick Chappatte is an editorial cartoonist for The International New York Times, formerly known as the International Herald Tribune, which has published his work since 2001. His cartoons have been featured in five books published by the newspaper. The latest collection, “Stress Test,” was released in 2012.

He is also a regular contributor to the European newspapers Neue Zürcher Zeitung and Le Temps. Earlier in his career, he contributed to The New York Times Book Review and created a comic strip for Newsweek International called “Rob the Cybernaut.”

Since 1995 Mr. Chappatte has worked in graphic journalism, or comics journalism, a genre of reporting using the techniques of graphic novels. His most recent stories covered the war in Gaza (2009), the slums of Nairobi (2010), gang violence in Central America (2012) and k-pop in South Korea (2013). These reports were published in several newspapers, including the International Herald Tribune; one was turned into a short animated documentary in 2011.

Mr. Chappatte has collaborated with editorial cartoonists in conflict-ridden countries with the goal of promoting dialogue through cartooning. These projects focused on Serbia, Ivory Coast, Lebanon, Kenya and Guatemala. He described the work in a TED talk in 2010.

In 2011, Mr. Chappatte won the Overseas Press Club of America’s Thomas Nast Award for best cartoons on international affairs. He was the first non-American to win this prize. In 2014, he became a research fellow at University of South California’s Annenberg school of journalism.

Mr. Chappatte was born in 1967 in Pakistan to a Lebanese mother and a Swiss father. He was raised in Singapore and Geneva, and lived in New York from 1995 to 1998. He now lives between Los Angeles and Geneva with his wife, Anne-Frédérique, an investigative journalist, and their three sons. Visit his Web site or follow him on Twitter.

Patrick Chappatte, an editorial cartoonist for the International Herald Tribune, won the Overseas Press Club of America’s Thomas Nast Award for best cartoons on international affairs in 2011. This slide show presents the artwork that he submitted for the contest.